San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-03-10
A good shower list night.

A good shower list night.
Esmeralda tonight at Harper's Hall.
SEQ caro- OF James Voolfolk, Bakery ant
Restaurant in another column.
See call for temperance meeting. w
hope to see large attendance.
A huge California cabbage, weighing q
pounds, is to be seen at Hardy 4 Cos.
Let "Esmeralda" and "DuBose Cottage
be 1.-THE watchword and reply" tonight
Our correspondents will have to exercise
patience. We hope to "clear the docket
mainly next week.
ERRoR.-In Commissioners Court pro-
ceediugs in our Inst damages to J. II. Gary
should have been $l5 instead of $1,000.
We conclude this week the able and in
structive article of Mr.. Young. or course
he only is responsible for the views therein
set forth.
Our Austin correspondent last week might
have spared his regrets for Correspondent
Garfield. The condemnation Of the House
Is nuts to him.
large number of our young folks en-
ioyed n sociable at the residence of Mr..
Chas. n. McGehee on Friday night, Miss
Adlie McGchee hostess.
We shall print further showing-up of
our city affairs as soon rs VIC find time and
space. We shall make it plain that the
administration of our city officers is not
invulnerable to criticism.
See list of new road overseers on our first
page. Also remainder of Commissioner s
Court proceedings. The FREE PRESS is the
only county paper which gives full reports
of important county matters of this descrip-
ton.
We think we SEQ indications of revival
of business. Orr advertising columns al
ready indicate it, and will continue to do so
more and more. People have learned that
it never fails to pay to advertise in an old
established paper of good circulation among
the solid well-to-do people.
The FREE PRESS is well known to have
decidedly the largest circulation, and among
the best people, of all our local papers. 1t
is also well known to give decidedly the
largest amount of reading matter, and that
of substantial interest and importance.
Why, then, should advertisers and readers
waste their money on inferior articles1
The San Marcos Cresset is an optimist
and the FREE PRESS pessilnist. The Ores
ct shines for all and sees booms and hears
them booming all around The FREE Press
can not see or hear them, though it would
if it could.
SO says State Press" of the Galveston
News. Yea, verify, we would if we could.
But in the language of the author of Me-
Fingal:
"Optics sharp it needs, ween,
To see what is not to be seen"
The meeting ut the Methodist church con-
tinues with undated interest. A grand
temperance mass-meetng was held in the
church on Sunday evening" The speaker
showed the evil effects of intemperence to
the satisfaction of all, after which he called
on the audience for q manifestation of their
willingness and resolution to do all in their
power to destroy the liquor traffic. Almost
the entire audience of perhaps two hundred
persons pledged themselves to work for
temperance. There have been 10 CONVEX
sions to date. Rev. Mr.. Preston, of San
Antonio, preached on Tuesday night For
the past few nights after meetings have been
held. On Wednesday morning OF 6:30
o'clock q prayer-meeting was held, and
4 o'clock Bible meeting is conducted. The
PEOPLE are in earnest and no doubt will
have good results.
The entertainment on Saturday night at
Harrer's Hail was one of real merit. There
was fair attendance, but owing to the
pending revival meetings and other circum-
stances, it was not as large as it would 9th
erwise have been. All the participants ac-
Quilted themselves well. Mrs. Given, who
was quite young when DR.. Denton, her
father, left San Marcos, showed marked
change in the way of womanly presence
md dignity, enhanced by her quiet, unaf-
fected manner, while her singing was of
the best. In both sweetness and power of
voice, she cannot readily be excelled by
my one of no more extended training. We
learn she intends ere long going to Boston
to avail herself of the superior facilities to
be had there for perfecting her musical ed
ucation, and We predict she will be favor
ably heard from in the future in the line of
her aspirations in that direction. Her sis
tiers, Misses Alice and Fannie Denton, who
were known here as little girls, now reap
pearcd III all the grace and bloom of young |
womanhood, and also performed their parts |
well. Miss Alice especially did remarkably |
well, both in her singing and Rotations. |
Mrs. Harding made favorable impression
on her first appearance before San Marcos !
also Mr.. Sid Durham. who might |
be styled the musical young giant of Texas
his power of voice fully corresponding with |
his Urge proportions.
We are pleased to learn that our people |
have some reason to promise themselves |
mother visit from our musical friends I'M |
Ter notice, with an entire change of pro- |
yramme We trust they may appear next |
lime under more favorable auspices, and |